Colorado Forest Management Improvement Act of 2007

A bill to reduce the risks to Colorado communities and water supplies from severe wildfires, especially in areas affected by insect infestations, to provide model legislation that may be applied to other States experiencing similar insect infestations or other forest-related problems, and for other purposes.

1/23/2008--Introduced.
Colorado Forest Management Improvement Act of 2007 [sic]- Directs the Secretaries of Agriculture and of the Interior to make grants to at-risk communities in Colorado to assist them in preparing, revising, or implementing a community wildfire protection plan. Amends the Federal Fire Prevention and Control Act of 1974 to authorize the use of fire department grant funds for the development and implementation of community wildfire protection plans. Directs the Secretaries to establish collection points for the placement of vegetative material removed from federal or other land as part of a hazardous fuel reduction project under this Act. Rewrites provisions governing the biomass commercial utilization grant program. Authorizes the Secretaries to designate as Healthy Forest Partnership Zones certain federal lands and non-federal lands adjacent to those lands that are at risk of uncharacteristically severe damage to at-risk communities or community water supply facilities from a wildland fire or an outbreak of insects or disease and require at least one management activity to reduce that risk. Allows the Secretaries to enter into contracts or other agreements with partnering entities to implement hazardous fuel reduction or other projects on federal land to complement similar projects on bordering or adjacent non-federal land.
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to:
(1) provide grant assistance to the Colorado Wood Program and the Forest Restoration Institute, and any other appropriate entities; and
(2) collaborate with the Institute to research, develop, and transfer broader landscape treatment strategies and ways to integrate best science with community needs.
Establishes the Colorado Forest Health Fund.
Requires the Secretaries to provide grants for the Colorado fuels for schools program. Extends terms for stewardship end result contracting projects. Makes permanent the Secretaries' authority to enter into cooperative agreements and contracts for federal and state cooperative watershed restoration and protection.
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to prepare fire-danger maps of forested lands.

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Sponsor

• Sen. Ken Salazar [D, CO]
• and 1 Co-Sponsors
  • Sen. Wayne Allard [R, CO]
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Committees

• Senate Energy and Natural Resources

Amendments

This bill has no amendments.

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Introduced		Voted on by Senate		Voted on by House		Considered By President		Bill Becomes Law
January 23, 2008

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• Jan 23, 2008: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
• Introduced on Jan 23, 2008.

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Related Bills:

• H.R.3072
• S.1797

Related Issue Areas:

• Pests
• Wood
• Watersheds
• Water supply
• 37 more
• Water resources
• Trucks
• Tree diseases
• Transportation
• Science policy
• School buildings
• Rural education
• Rural affairs
• Restoration ecology
• Public lands
• Public contracts
• National forests
• Maps
• Lumber trade
• Insect pests
• Infrastructure
• Heating
• Grants-in-aid
• Government trust funds
• Government information
• Forestry research
• Forest management
• Forest health
• Forest fires
• Forest conservation
• Fire prevention
• Fire departments
• Federal aid to education
• Environmental protection
• Energy
• Emergency management
• Elementary and secondary education
• Education
• Colorado
• Budgets
• Biomass energy
• Natural resources

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January 22, 2008 S. 2546, A bill to reduce the risks to Colorado communities and ...

S. 2546 would reduce the risks to Colorado communities and water supplies from severe wildfires, especially in areas affected by insect infestations, and it would provide model legislation that may be applied to other States ...

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